Dr. Burian's Calendar

Steven J. Burian, Ph.D., P.E. — Associate Professor

Research: Dr. Burian's research contributes to the engineering of sustainable and secure urban systems. Focus research areas include sustainable development, urban water infrastructure system security, integrated urban water management, urbanization effects on the regional-to-global water cycle, modeling and simulation of extreme floods, developing satellite-based approaches to characterize urban environments and manage urban water systems, regional water-energy-urban growth interdependencies and master planning, and water-climate-vegetation interactions in urban systems.

Courses Taught: Hydraulics, Hydrology, Stormwater Management & Design, Pipeline Hydraulic Analysis, Advanced GIS, Flood Modeling and Simulation, Sustainability Practicum, Sustainable Urban Water Engineering, Urban Hydrology Field Measurements, Hydrotopia - Water Management in the West.

Research Highlights:

In March 2009, Dave Judi successfully defended his dissertation on flood modeling.

His work has developed a fast response 2D flood model (to right shows one of his simulations of flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina).